Recent Submissions

The poster gives an overview of the research for the funded project " Electricity Distribution Resilience Framework through West Coast Alpine Fault Scenario". This research is being undertaken through four tracks: ...

New Zealand's plate boundary location implies its vulnerability to earthquake hazard. Earthquakes have caused significant damage to the built environment of the country and heavily disturbed its economy. In particular, the ...

In 2016, Invercargill City Council engaged Origin Consultants to review central city heritage buildings.
169 buildings were reassessed with 26 buildings recommended for removal. As a result, Invercargill City Council ...

We describe the creation of a building inventory database developed for Wellington, whose ultimate aim is to assist the generation of research on the risks, impacts, and viable solutions for reducing the seismic risk of ...

INTRODUCTION
The innovative Resilient Slip Friction Joint (RSFJ) technology has recently been introduced to the NZ construction industry. This damage avoidance technology not only provides life safety, but also minimizes ...

This project is aligned to Electricity Distribution Resilience framework and funded by Resilience to Nature’s Challenges. The goal of this project is to make New Zealand’s electricity infrastructure resilient to natural ...

Background and Objective
Significant portions of QuakeCoRE research require large-scale computationally-intensive numerical ground motion (GM) simulations.
The amount of data and complexity of computation make the ...

Abstract: The impact of natural disasters has been increasing in the recent years. Despite developing international interest in multi-hazard events, few studies quantify the dynamic interaction that characterise these ...

This research provides the hotel sector with a starting point for assessing and better understanding what disaster resilience is for hotels by identifying predictors of disaster resilience. Resilience to disaster has become ...

During disasters, exposed communities bear the brunt of impacts and are first to respond. People of these communities obtain local and/or indigenous understanding of locally-specific challenges and opportunities, which no ...

The Akatore Fault is located to the southwest of Dunedin city and is thought to represent the most significant source of seismic hazard for the city. As Dunedin has not experienced a large earthquake in recorded history, ...

Earthquake-triggered soil liquefaction caused extensive damage and heavy economic losses in Christchurch during the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. The most severe manifestations of liquefaction were associated with the ...

Motivation
Densification of strong-motion station networks, their increased sensitivity, and the desire to use smaller magnitude data, is leading to exponentially-increasing ground motion datasets. Despite the improving ...

Introduction
This poster presents the inferred initial performance and recovery of the water supply network of Christchurch following the 22 February 2011 Mw 6.2 earthquake. Results are presented in a geospatial and ...

Geospatial liquefaction models aim to predict liquefaction using data that is free and readily-available. This data includes (i) common ground-motion intensity measures; and (ii) geospatial parameters (e.g., among ...

After the Christchurch earthquakes, the government declared about 8000 houses as Red Zoned, prohibiting further developments in these properties, and offering the owners to buy them out. The government provided two options ...

We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected ...